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In this paper we argue that certain nominal phrase constructions in German and English are best considered as having empty lexical heads. We propose a feature LP, which gives the status of the LEFT PERIPHERY of a nominal tree structure as one of three values, empty, full or one. A number of simple language-specific rules govern the combination of signs in terms of their LP values. For example, ...

This paper explores the hypothesis that simple monotonicity properties of quantiiers in natural language determine to a large extent the entailment relations between their wide/narrow scope readings. We prove that the disjunctive normal form of upward monotone quanti-ers using principal ultraalters correlates with whether an object narrow scope reading entails an object wide scope reading. This...

The prototypes of definiteness and indefiniteness in English are the definite article the and the indefinite article a/an, and singular noun phrases (NPs) determined by them. That being the case it is not to be predicted that the concepts, whatever their content, will extend satisfactorily to other determiners or NP types. However it has become standard to extend these notions. Of the two categ...

Different theories of SLA offer conflicting views of the relationship between metalinguistic task performance and oral production. We examined this relationship with respect to the possessive determiners ‘his/her’in English. Learners’ oral production was elicited using a picture description task and described according to developmental stages;a parallelframework was developed to classifylearner...

This paper argues against the notion 'functional category' (a kind of word-class) while accepting that individual words may be described as 'function' words or 'content' words. It focuses on the two least controversial examples of functional categories — 'determiner' and 'complementiser' — and argues that neither of these categories is needed; and if this conclusion is correct, there is even le...

T h e question I am going to discuss is the very straightforward and specific one of “why rats turn the way they do, at a given choice-point in a given maze at a given stage of learning.” The first item in the answer is fairly obvious. They turn the way they do because they have on the preceding trials met this same choicepoint together with such and such further objects or situations, down the...

Possessive pronouns are used as determiners in English when no equivalent would be used in a Japanese sentence with the same meaning. This paper proposes a heuristic method of generating such possessive pronouns even when there is no equivalent in the Japanese. The method uses information about the use of possessive pronouns in English treated as a lexical property of nouns, in addition to cont...

648 NATURAL LANGUAGE by first order predicate calculus: "The sentence Floyd broke a glass translates into 3 x (glass (x) A break (Floyd, x)) or, in the notation of restricted quantification ( ] x : glass) (break (Floyd, x)). In either case, the syntactic constituent a glass does not correspond to any semantic constituent; rather, its interpretation forms several discontinuous parts of the logic...